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Re: Racing Sparks
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- Subject: Re: Racing Sparks
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- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:31:22 -0600
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Original poster: Mark Barlow <barlow_tesla_lst@xxxxxxxxx>
From my personal experience with racing sparks, I have only seen
them occur when my Tesla coil is excited at a 3rd or 5th and so on
ODD Harmonic. To fix this I increased the size of my capacitor bank
and primary coil this lowered the frequency down to the 1st harmonic
of the coil and stopped the racing sparks. Hope this helps and good luck!
- Mark
Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Original poster: tesla popp
I just set up my "Devian" coil. This coil was
originally designed to be very small and powerful.
the problem is that i cant even power it up 15%
without the sparks racing across the secondaries
surface. I have 5 coats of poly on it already. I
also played with to toroid in some failed attempt to
fix the problem.
How can i get sparks to stop racing across the
surface?